On 5 Mar 2002 10:14:11 -0500, Ron Parker wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:59:02 +0200, Vahur Krouverk wrote:
>> Mark Wagner wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm looking for a program that will take a heightfield image that I've
>>> created and turn it into a contour map.  I've found GRASS, but it seems a
>>> bit overkill for the job, and it's a 17 MB download.
>>> 
>> Won't POV-Ray be suitable? if you render heightfield orthographically
>> from top and create texture map accordingly to height?
> 
> That technique has a tendency to make fat contour lines where the slope is 
> gentle.

I had a great thought on this: just use the slope pattern to select a 
suitably narrow or wide gradient pattern!  It'd be ugly code, but it'd 
kinda work.

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